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Will Miller hit a 3-pointer with 7.3 seconds left to bring the visiting Mount St. Mary's men's basketball team within one point of Saint Francis (Pa.) on Thursday night. But Greg Brown (Archbishop Spalding) made a pair of free throws with 6.2 seconds left and the Red Flash (15-13, 9-8 Northeast Conference) won, 63-60. Byron Ashe had a team-high 15 points for the Mount (14-14, 10-9), which dropped out of a three-way tie with Robert Morris and Bryant for second place in the conference. Saint Francis kept its playoff hopes alive, vying for the fifth-place slot with LIU-Brooklyn and Wagner, both 8-8. Ashe had 11 points in the first half, but Mount St. Mary's trailed 30-26 at...

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